Show SHARP ADVANCES fEATURE WEEK EEK High Stock Averages and 30 2 Cotton of Interest I NEW NW YORK March Mach 3 Chief S. Chief Interest atthe ot of the financial community this week was wu di divided divided di- di 01 vided between between the th sharp harp upturn In the prices of Industrial stocks tocks Carrying the tb averages to the tho highest level since the spring of 1920 2920 and sales of ot spot and old crop crp cotton above 30 i cent cents a pound also 1110 the highest prices recorded In three years Bond n fI prices and foreign exchange rates showed only n nominal fluctuations While the Impetus for tor the advance In stock pries prices was wu furnished by operations of pool and professional traders It was wu founded on the tho rising tendency of ot commodity commodity commo commo- prices the e already having n witnessed wit wit- fleeced 17 cent e copper ert 74 cent t raw and 9 S Scent cent refined sugar and substantially ly higher prices price for tor zinc lead steel and Iron products product textiles and cud a large lal number of other othe com tom m Further r Indications of ot trade trado and business business busi busi- ness neu Improvement also are furnished by a a continuation of ot record car loadings loading a largo large Increase In bank bak clearings operations operation of ot steel mills mil at 90 80 per ver cent of capacity re resumption re- re lumpton of ot dividends dividend by the tho th Anaconda Copper Mining company doubling of the tho Utah Copper dividend and a marked decrease decrease de de- de- de marke crease In business failures which amounted to approximately 26 25 per cent in the first Cut two months of ot the year below the tho corresponding corre corn month months last lat year ur |